Chris' Notes

1: What are the advantages + disadvantages of both sexual and asexual reproduction

Asexual:

Advantages-

• It will make an easier time into surviving if they're in unstable environments, since they all stay in one place when asexually reproduced
• Reproduction will become faster, therefore making it easier to colonize an area better and quicker, and it only needs one parent
• When doing asexual reproduction, the steps are quicker and easier, so less can go wrong when giving birth, as less natural resources are needed for he organism

A scientific (and sick) asexual reproduction of a cell


Disadvantages-

• If birth-organism holds a disease or bad-quality, it would be directly passed down to the asexually reproduced baby
• Chances of evolution from the asexually reproduced organism to help the species survive better is at a point of 0
• For plants, if all are asexually reproduced into one colony, there will be a struggle for light, soil, and water, making them less healthy

Sexual:

Advantages-

• It's one of the main processes of evolutions for a species' survival
• Even new species can probably be born when sexually reproduced
• Each newborn sexually-produced baby has its own character, so it won't hold the sickness the birth mother had, unless it's AIDS

A sperm that's about to meet with an egg


Disadvantages-

• The process into getting gestation for a newborn baby is slower, as well as not guaranteed to occur, as well as needing a huge piece of the environment
• Only half of the amount of Earth's population can reproduce sexually
• To reproduce sexually two mates must come together in order to do that, and believe it or not, that would take some work

Link to help you understand better:
http://scienceray.com/biology/human-biology/asexual-and-sexual-reproduction/

---

2: Name 3 organisms that reproduce sexually and 3 that reproduces asexually

Asexual:

• Starfish
• Bacteria
• Strawberries

A paramecium splitting apart







Sexual:

• Lions
• Humans
• Horses

A horse gave sexual birth to a newborn child







Hey, watch this video for an example of Asexual and Sexual Reproduction:




Asexual